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Kimber’s novels share common virtues, however: they are all fast-paced, entertaining thrillers that are as intellectually stimulating as they are page-turners. Kimber’s aim is the same as that of his literary exemplar, Colin Wilson: to write with a “wide-angled vision” that does not “merely reflect the everyday” – the ordinariness of a life lived at …

Sophisticated sociopolitical arguments are seeded through this book – about sex differences, elitism, the nature and purpose of universities, and freedom of conscience – but none of these viewpoints are expressed by Angel, although we infer that he generally agrees with their conservative-reactionary tenor. There are shrewd observations of today’s cry-bully tendencies, with their manic …

Dangerous Liaisons- a man carrying a woman who looks to have fainted.

“When one woman strikes at the heart of another, she seldom misses, and the wound is invariably fatal.” ― Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons dangereuses   In the novel Dangerous Liaisons, which shocked the French public with its depiction of the cruelty and degeneracy of the nobility, two aristocrats plot to corrupt a teenage girl who is …